A hysterectomy is a common major surgery that constitutes the removal of a woman's uterus. Doctors across the United States perform up to 650,000 hysterectomies a year because of various reasons, including excessive monthly bleeding and cancer.

Kim Roberts suffered from chronic fibroids for years, and it severely affected her quality of life every month.

"I was losing a lot of blood. My iron was very low. The thought of having a menstrual cycle every month, it was the worst feeling ever. I was sick a week before I had the menstrual cycle, and weeks after. I was never good," she said.

Roberts has a son and daughter, so she decided to follow the recommendation of Mercy Medical Center's Dr. Fermin Barrueto and went ahead with the surgery to remove her uterus. Roberts admitted she was initially apprehensive about it but said it changed her life.

"I feel great since my hysterectomy," she said.

Barrueto said a lot of myths need to be dispelled, particularly about how a hysterectomy affects a woman's sex life.

"It boils down to this: It doesn't have any impact on that. If the patient has not had a good sexual life before hysterectomy, it's going to be the same after hysterectomy, because the hysterectomy has nothing to do to impair or improve that. In many cases, it will improve it because there is no more bleeding," Barrueto said.

Roberts said she feels better than ever.

"I still feel like a woman. I actually feel better -- I'm healthier. I don't have to take iron pills three or four times a day to try to get energy. I say if you need to do it, do it. You will feel better," she said.

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